Improvement in brushes



UNITED JOHN E.' HOWARD AND CLARENCE E. HOWARD, OF READING, MAss.

IMPROVEMENT INVBRusHEs.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1,79, 196, dated une 27, 1876; application filed I May 20, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN E. HOWARD and CLARENCE E. HOWARD, of Reading, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Brushes and Hand-Mirrors, of which the following is a specification:

In the accolnpanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, Figure l represents a view of the face Of a hair-brush embodying our invention. Fig. 2 represents a section of the same On line w Fig. l. Fig. 3 represents a perspective View of the iian ged rim or holder detached, and Fig. 4 represents a sectional View of a hand-mirror embodying our invention.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawing refer to like parts.

This invention relates to hair-brushes and hand-mirrors which are composed of two general parts-viz., a facing of Card-clothin g (i. e., sheet rubber, or other elastic material, provided Vwith brush-teeth or bristles) and a back and handle, or a facing of glass and a back and handle.

The object ofv the invention is to provide simple and effective means for securing the facings to the backs of articles of the abovenamed class, which shall also impart a neat and handsome nish to the completed articles, and strengthen and prot-eet the backs.

lo this end our invention consists in the combination, with the back and facing of a hair-brush or hand-mirror of the above-named class, of a flanged rini adapted to inclose and be secured to the edges of the back and cover the margin of the facing, as we will 110W proceed to describe.

In the drawings, A represents the back of y that is to say, a sheet of rubber provided with straight Wire teeth, as shown in Fig. 2and in a hand-mirror of a sheet of ordinary mirrorgl'ass. The facing is eut to correspond with the shape of the back, which may be Ot' any desired shape. C represents the metallic rim, which is provided with a flange, C', and is adapted to inclose the edge of the back, as

shown, the flange projecting inwardly, and

ering the nail-heads, and preventing the rubber from being detached from. them.

In heavy brushes it may be advisable tO screw the han ge to the back, the screws passing through the facing.

In hand-mirrors, the glass facing, being stift', requires no fastening, excepting that afforded by the flanged rim.,

We are by this invention enabled to attach the facing of a hair-brush or hand-mirror to the back with great ease and iirmness,besides producing a neat and ornamental article, the flanged rim, which may be Of metal, hard rubber, Or other suitable rigid material, giving a neat nish. This rim also strengthens the back and prevents it from cracking.

We claim as Our invention- The combination of the iianged rim C with the back A and facing B, substantially asdescribed, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOI-IN E. HOWARD. CLARENCE E. HOWARD. Witnesses:

LIZZIE H. BROWN, C. F. BROWN. 

